BRICK

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brick I. substantiv

1. cărămidă; clincher; chirpici; (fam.) ţiglă, olan;

unburnt / air / dried brick cărămidă nearsă;

to bake / to burn brick a arde cărămidă;

(fig.) to drop a brick a face o gafă / o boroboaţă;

(fig. sl.) to have a brick in one's hat a fi beat / afumat;

(fam.) like a hundred / thousand / cartload of bricks cu putere; cu toată puterea;

(fig.) like a cat on hot bricks (ca) pe jăratec;

(bibl.) to make bricks without straw a întreprinde, a face ceva fără a avea materialul necesar; a căra apă la puţ, a bate apa în piuă;

(amer. sl.) to hit the bricks a) a merge pe jos (prin oraş); b) a face grevă şi a manifesta pe străzi; c) a umbla noaptea pe străzi din lipsă de adăpost.

2. bucată; placă; tabletă; brichetă;

box of bricks cuburi (pentru copii).

3. (fam.) băiat bun, băiat de zahăr;

he's a dear little brick e un băiat minunat, e un băiat de zahăr;

don't you call me an old brick? n-am făcut bine? nu eşti mulţumit de mine?

brick II. adjectiv

de cărămidă, din cărămidă; de forma unei cărămizi.

brick III. verb tranzitiv

1. (şi to brick up / in) a zidi cu cărămidă, a acoperi cu cărămidă.

2. to brick in / out a închide printr-un zid, a zidi;

to brick over a clădi deasupra (cu gen.), a clădi peste;

to brick up a zidi, a închide cu zid.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Dorothy helped him over the fence, and they started along the path of yellow brick for the Emerald City.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

“I can’t make bricks without clay.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I kept to the pavement after that, Watson, but as I walked down Vere Street a brick came down from the roof of one of the houses, and was shattered to fragments at my feet.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She bade her friends good-bye, and again started along the road of yellow brick.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy home a box of bricks.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were all tired out when they reached the shore at last and stepped off upon the pretty green grass, and they also knew that the stream had carried them a long way past the road of yellow brick that led to the Emerald City.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

After the Lion had rested they started along the road of yellow brick, silently wondering, each in his own mind, if ever they would come to the end of the woods and reach the bright sunshine again.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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